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Rules & Reflection

“Ladies and gentlemen. We are living in a time of great economic change – we need to innovate and build new industries, and make the right calls to drive jobs and growth. You face a critical choice at the next election – will you stay with our economic plan for jobs and growth?”

Malcolm Turnbull, probably

Jobs & Growth is a collaborative card game of economic development and political buffoonery for 2-5 players. Players each take the role of a politician, or Pollie, and aim to develop a country’s economy by generating economic Growth and producing Jobs through building infrastructure and industrial assets, and working commodities. They achieve this over the course of 12 turns – at the conclusion of this period, the player who has created the most Jobs wins. Alternatively, the game will end in an Economic Crisis if: